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| Cambodia calling: Natalie Devenny is asking people to donate for a school. |
Neelima Choahan
Melton Weekly (Australia)
BACCHUS Marsh Rotarians are in a race against time to raise the roof for a Cambodian school before the start of the country's wet season.
The club has raised $7500 for the project and is looking for a matching amount to bring the total to $15,000.
The roofing project will allow the school in Mondul 3 to educate about 400 children in a new facility.
Rotarian Natalie Devenny said she was amazed at the support the club's 'Raise the Roof' fund-raiser received last month.
"The support of a 'Cambodia night' by the local business community was remarkable," she said.
Run by non-government organisation New Hope Cambodia, the school in the Siem Reap province was started by former Buddhist monk Soth Kemsour in 2007. Things really took off when Australian Kerry Huntly joined forces with the former monk.
Ms Devenny said the pair had contributed personal funds to the school project and had built a free medical centre, women's and children's shelter and training restaurant.
"The people of Mondul 3 are desperate and grateful for any level of support," Ms Devenny said.
"They live in conditions and attend school in conditions we in Bacchus Marsh could not begin to imagine."
Ms Devenny, who visited New Hope Cambodia earlier this year, said the experience had been life-changing.
"Life is not the same any more since I returned home to Australia after visiting New Hope Cambodia in March.
"Our worst problems seem so trivial in comparison to the daily hardships experienced by the people of Mondul 3. Their lives are plagued with poverty, disease and famine - such hardship we can't begin to imagine."
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2 comments:
Good job Natalie, the initiative of the western people are amazing such as this Australian woman.
We need to support her in some ways.
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